Besom, Stang & Sword (A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, The Six Fold Path & the Hidden Landscape) by Christopher Orapello & Tara Love Maguire

Christopher Orapello is an artist, witch, and animist with a background in Western occultism, ceremonial magick, and Freemasonry and has been on his journey for 30 years. He co-hosts the podcast Down at the Crossroads with his partner, Tara-Love Maguire, a signature artist with Sacred Source (a leading producer and distributor of ancient deity images in North America), and is the Magister of The Blacktree Tradition of Witchcraft. You can find out more about Christopher and Tara-Love at www.infinite-beyond.com.

“From this moment on, when someone in North America asks me for a book on traditional witchcraft, I will be recommending Besom, Stang, and Sword. Why? Because this book takes what I feel is the most essential truth of any real witchcraft and places it front and center: All witchcraft is local.” —Jason Miller, author of Consorting with Spirits
"A beautifully wrought and immensely practical system of modern traditional witchcraft, born of personal insight, working experience, and dedication rooted deeply in the spirit of place." —Gemma Gary, author of Traditional Witchcraft

"Orapello and Maguire have done it. Besom, Stang, and Sword is as comprehensive a guide to traditional witchcraft as one could ask for." —Amy Blackthorn, author of Blackthorn's Botanical Magic

"Besom, Stang, and Sword skillfully introduces the reader to important lessons in traditional witchcraft and sets them on a path of mastery. A book that will quickly become a classic and a must-have for those who seek to discover the magic of the crooked path." —Devin Hunter, author of The Witch’s Book of Power

"Opens the doors, laying out the materials of magic for all to see. The results drive home the central point that witchcraft is available to anyone.” —Cory Thomas Hutcheson, author of New World Witchery

"An inspired foundation with workable material in the form of rituals, spells, and explorations that both novice and experienced practitioners alike will find compelling and enlightening." —Laura Tempest Zakroff, author of Weave the Liminal
"Besom, Stang, and Sword is easily the most eminently practical book on traditional witchcraft available today." —Nicholas Pearson, author of The Seven Archetypal Stones

"The book returns the Craft to its primordial forces—animism, baneful plants, folk magic, ecstasy, and hedge-witchery—without gatekeeping, armchair pseudo-academia, or pretension.” —Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch

"Beautifully written, deeply researched, and growing from the furrows of a genuine practice . . . There’s much to learn here and much to do. Bury yourself in Besom, Stang, and Sword's evocative spirit." —H. Byron Ballard, author of Seasons of a Magical Life

"Presents traditional witchcraft in a clear, easy-to-learn manner, and it does so within the context of a complete tradition that is non-religious but filled with spirits." —John Michael Greer, The Druidry Handbook

"The authors have made the old become new and live again. Chapter by chapter, they lay out the tools and the paths of their system of witchcraft. If you do the work described, you will claim your place in a broader reality filled with majesty and power." —Ivo Dominguez Jr., author of The Four Elements of the Wise